I managed to work two mornings on Eddys portrait in the large painting — Charley Toorop

"Do you remember how beautiful it was, and that silly Mondrian and those silly Buddha positions right in the middle at the beach [of Domburg, Zeeland, in 1906] (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"

"We can often characterize the painting art of Charley Toorop as Veristic. She is an Expressionist who wants to be un-expressionistic with an expressionist passion, as indeed many Vérists do. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"

"1. Never knock on doors, or even worse - to open closed doors, 2. always on time for dinner, 3. Do not mess up, 4. never unwashed at the table. Everything else was allowed. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"

"The Paris public will initially stare surprised at these expressions of a heavy and gloomy passion.. ..where the Frenchman must first and foremost be struck by the absence of anything specifically considered as feminine and - [what] is not unfamiliar to many male artists: coquetry.. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"

"There is too much method, too much cliché in the work. One knows nowadays in advance what one will see in a portrait of Charley Toorop. The wide-eyed gaze; the forced colors in the face; the painting of the flesh like carved wood and polychromed; the merciless contour of the hair against the background; the cloddy-like enlargements and intensifications, they dont surprise for long and dont convince us anymore. translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"

"As main motif in front ànd large a sled with cheese sparkling orange-yellow - the product [is] carried by two porters, of which the foremost barely and only partly visible - the porter behind, on the other hand, as the only main figure of the whole painting, in his head [expressed] the whole clenched closeness of the Northern Netherlands, in which culminates the serious character of the work.. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"